Reviews
 HostMan 1.2 -
easily manage your hosts file |
Here's a slick little program that
makes working with your Windows HOSTS file easier. What is a HOSTS
file?
Features:
- enable/disable usage of hosts file;
-
open Hosts file with one click;
- prevent other programs of
writing to the hosts;
- scan hosts for errors;
- easily
replace all 127.0.0.1 with 0.0.0.0 (and vice-versa);
- find how
many host names;
- easily install newly downloaded hosts
file;
- create encrypted backups of your hosts file;
- scan
hosts for duplicates; |
 Itty Bitty Process
Manager - view and show others running processes on your
pc |
Many of you might be familiar with using
CTRL-ALT-DEL to bring up the Windows Task Manager so you can see
what programs are running on your PC. This program does the same
thing but it also allows you to copy the list of running programs
into the Windows Clipboard or save it to a text file. That makes it
easy for you to show others what you have running. You can just copy
and paste the list into a chat room, a forum, a blog, or an email.
Website
-
Freeware
Quote from the website - Itty Bitty Process Manager (IBProcMan):
A standalone version of the little process manager included in
HijackThis (Misc Tools section). Shows full paths to processes,
optionally shows DLLs loaded by processes. Can save the process list
(and dll list) to file, as well as copy it to the clipboard.
Compatible with at least Windows 98, 98SE, ME, 2000, XP and
newer.
Very useful for cleaning up systems infected with trojans
or viruses that kill antivirus and antispyware
programs. |
 Lektora -
browser plugin turns IE and FF into RSS
newsreader |
I've been looking for a good integrated
newsreader for quite awhile now and I finally found one I can work
with. Now I don't have to use a separate application for RSS
feeds. Once I installed Lektora, all I have to do is click the
Lektora button in my browser and a few seconds later I can see all
the latest news from the many websites, blogs, and newsletters I
like to read. When I want to add a new feed all I have to do is
click the RSS button at a website and Lektora pops up to ask me if I
want to add it to my current list of feeds. I think Lektora is
great. No adware, no spyware, no signup, easy to install, and
doesn't seem to overtax my limited resources. Grab a copy now, once
Lektora is out of beta, they'll start charging money for it.
Website - Freeware
(beta) - requires IE6 or FireFox 1.0
Quote from the website - Lektora is the RSS feed aggregator that
integrates seamlessly with Firefox and Internet Explorer to enable
easy reading of news feeds within the web browser. Offering an
intuitive user interface and highly polished aesthetic, Lektora
simplifies subscribing to, reading and managing web site news feeds,
without sacrificing
performance. |
 LyricFX -
plugin for WinAmp displays song lyrics
automatically |
If I haven't said this before, WinAmp
multimedia player is the most flexible and has the best user support
of any of them. This plugin is just one example of the multitudes of
plugins that allow you to make WinAmp do just what you want it to
do.
Website - NO LONGER Freeware - TRIALWARE
Quote from the website - Supports text, .lrc as well as
lyrics embedded in the mp3 (Lyrics3v1, Lyrics3v2 and ID3v2.x)
Automatically search several popular lyrics databases to find
the lyrics
Stores downloaded lyrics for offline viewing
Accurately highlight and smoothly scrolls lyrics with timestamps
Supports Mouse Gestures
Includes a powerful lyrics editor to
easily add lyrics and timestamps to your music collection
Displays a 3D accelerated visualization along with the lyrics
Contains no spyware or adware, and is
free |
Moveit -
move installed applications to another hard drive |
This program seems to work. I tried it
out on an installed program I have. It was a program I wasn't
planning on keeping, so I wasn't worried about losing it or messing
it up. Moveit gave me an error message and said it couldn't move my
files for me but I just skipped the error message and continued.
Moveit scans all the registry looking for references to the program
you want to move. It changes the registry entries so that you can
run the program from the hard drive you've chosen. It took a long
time for it to scan the registry. When Moveit was done I just copied
the program I wanted to move to the area on the other hard drive
where I wanted it to run. It's not trouble free but it did work.
Website
- Freeware
Quote from the readme file - Having a lot of programs on your
hard drive is a usual thing today, but someday such users
certainly will face such problem as moving registered program
from one place to another. It is a problem, because almost
every program stores some data into registry (such as used file
paths, for example), and you can't just move program folder
from where it is to another location, because in 90% cases
application will not run correctly anymore. So was before. Today
MoveIT! will help you to solve
this problem |
PC Wizard -
what's in your PC? |
Nice little utility like Belarc Advisor
and Everest
Home Edition. This program gives you detailed reports on all the
hardware and drivers in your PC. It's able to generate reports in
several formats so you can send it by email or post it in help
forums.
Website - Freeware
Quote from the website - PC WIZARD 2004 is a powerful utility
designed especially for detection of hardware, but also some more
analysis. It's able to identify a large scale of system components
and supports the latest technologies and standards. This tool is
periodically updated (usually once per month) in order to provide
most accurate results. PC WIZARD 2004 is also an utility designed to
analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can analyze and
benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, Cache
performance, RAM performance, Hard Disk performance, CD/DVD-ROM
performance, Removable/FLASH Media
performance. |
 Snowbird Search
- lighting fast file search utility |
I've been using a file search program
called Agent Ransack for almost two years now. I've finally found
one that's got it matched for speed. Using this tool I can search my
entire C: drive in seconds. Snowbird creates an html page on
the fly as it searches then launches Internet Explorer to show it's
results. That's very nice but doesn't let you manipulate the files
with cut, copy, paste or sendto. On the other hand if I want to
save a search result, all I have to do is save the search
result html file somewhere. What's got me wondering is how in the
world the author put all this power into a program that's only 20Kb
in size. It literally downloaded in the blink of an eye. There is no
installation needed. Just unzip it into a folder and run it.
Website
- Freeware
Quote from the website - Snowbird is the latest in hard disk
search technology - a lightning fast search program that can search
for anything on your computer, including data inside files, and
automatically categorize the results into Documents, Pictures,
Audio, etc. It is intelligent enough to display exact and
close matches before other matches, unlike Windows' built-in search
that can sort only by name or date. The program is a tiny 20 KB ZIP
that everyone can afford to
download. | |
January
23, 2005 Freeware, why settle for
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